It's Only Entertainment: Morris, murals and 'Gong Show'

Tuesday

Jul 11, 2017 at 12:15 PMJul 11, 2017 at 2:35 PM

Dana Barbuto The Patriot Ledger

... “Co-Co-Collabo,” by Boston muralist Cyrille Conan is the new exhibit at Boston Children’s Museum, on view through Sept. 17... You’ve seen Amherst’s John Higby, aka The Yo-Yo Guy, perform at many South Shore venues. Now, he takes his mad skills to national television. Higby is a contestant on ABC’s revival of “The Gong Show,” airing at 10 p.m. Thursday. British comedy legend Tommy Maitland aka actor Mike Myers (“Austin Powers”) hosts ... Cambridge filmmaker Errol Morris dedicates his latest documentary, “The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography,” to late photographic researcher Ann Petrone. She grew up in Brockton and graduated from Whitman-Hanson High. Petrone died in 2015. She was 53. She worked with Morris on the Oscar-winning 2003 documentary “The Fog of War.” "The B-Side" opens Friday.

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